EnsignWashout

joined 2 years ago

This...might be canon now. There's a few conversations in Strange New Worlds that feel like the Universal Translator reached its limit of making Vulcans not-rude.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 5 points 18 hours ago

I don't recall the doctor being green, though?

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 4 points 18 hours ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 13 points 3 weeks ago

C: Cheddar?

O: No. We don't get much call for it.

C: But it's the single most popular cheese in the world!

O: Not around here, sir.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Makes me suspect they have some lawyers on staff who were able to read America's laws -b which read to a lay-lerson as 'we absolutely always spy on everything you host on our soil'.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s for people who aren’t tech literate.

My experience installing Linux for tech illiterate parents and grandparents was lovely.

They never noticed they're not on Windows. They just wanted their two desktop icons - web and email.

Edit: Funny related story - they (grandparents) always rebooted with the power button after Linux told them it had updated - which was almost never necessary. I always just told them "good job", when they mentioned it, though.

when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support

For folks reading along, we absolutely are your personal tech support. Most of us owe way more than that to our mentors, and can never pay our mentors back, we can only pay it forward to folks like you.

Ask away!

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's often the ones we most suspected.

a picture of Reagan with quotes of how Russia is the enemy, and tariffs are bad for everybody.

That's particularly good.

and to my surprise everything seems good! (knock on wood)

After a few aborted attempts to switch to Linux, over the years, that has been exactly the vibe of my latest journey.

"So this all just works now?" has been my repeated surprised thought.

Standard disclaimer: I don't have any hardware by Nvidia. Not by choice, I was just feeling broke when Nvidia got hot.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Couldn't you also make a throwaway ms account?

I could, but them I'm up a creek later if I need to use any recovery functionality, as it all ties back to that MS cloud account.

It's certainly possible to get working, disable all of the cloud saves and telemetry, and then just save the MS account in a password vault for later.

But all of that is much more work than clicking "next" a few times in the Linux Mint installer. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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